ROBERT SHER-MACHHERNDL 4730 HOLIDAY DRIVE #104 BOULDER CO 80304 USA 720 771 0162 [email protected] www.lemonspongecake.org PROFILE Robert Sher-Machherndl, a native of Vienna, Austria, has enjoyed a distinguished career in the performing arts ranging from Principal Dancer, Choreographer, Master Teacher to Artistic Director. EXPERIENCE Artistic Director, Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet, 2001 to present SELECT CHOREOGRAPHIES • 2018 Gone - Junction Place, Boulder • 2017 Grasping Aspects of Shekhinah - University of Colorado Boulder • 2017 Vertical Migration Experiment - Boulder Jewish Community Center • 2016 White Fields - Public Art Commission, City of Boulder • 2016 White Mirror Second Look - Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Denver • 2015 White Mirror - Bowdoin College, Maine • 2015 Rush - National College Dance Festival, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts • 2015 Rush - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco • 2015 White Mirror - Public Art Commission, City of Denver • 2014 Solo - Ballet Next, Joyce Theater, New York City • 2014 Hanna - Vienna State Ballet /Jugendkompanie, Vienna State Opera • 2014. Leopoldstatdt 22 - Mizel Museum, Denver • 2013 Man Made Men - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2012 Scarlet - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2011 BluePrint - Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver • 2011 Anilla - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2011 Shiro Shiro - Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver • 2010 Vertical Migration - Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver • 2010 Bach 260 - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2010 Young People’s Project - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2010 Liquid Space - Finnish National Ballet • 2010 Liquid Space - Alvin Ailey Theater, New York City • 2010 Solo - Colorado College Dance Festival • 2009 Liquid Space - Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver • 2009 Cello Sonata - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2008 Liquid Space - Alexandra Theater, Helsinki • 2008 Choreographic Fusion - Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra • 2008 A Strange Land - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2008 I Trust You To Kill Me - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2007 Gala - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2007 Project Peace - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2006 Alien Nation - Newman Center for the Performing Arts, Denver • 2006 Mozart 250 - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2005 Tigerlilly - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2005 Le Ballet Star - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2005 Vertigo - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2004 Where is the Love - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2004 AustriaPop - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2003 Strangelands - Chautauqua Summer Series, Boulder • 2003 LoveCrimes - Dairy Art Center, Boulder • 2001 UnCut - Dairy Art Center, Boulder SELECT RESIDENCIES AND WORKSHOPS • 2019 Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London UK • 2018 Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London UK • 2018 Colorado Ballet Academy Pre-professional Division, Denver CO US • 2017 University of Colorado at Boulder US • 2017 University of Wyoming WY US • 2017 Naropa University, Boulder CO US • 2017 Colorado Ballet Academy Pre-professional Division, Denver CO US • 2016 Colorado Ballet Academy Pre-professional Division, Denver CO US • 2015 Colorado Ballet Academy Pre-professional Division, Denver CO US • 2015 Bowdoin College at Maine US • 2015 Lines Ballet BFA at Dominican University CA US • 2015 Lines Ballet Training Program, San Francisco CA US • 2014 Lines Ballet Training Program, San Francisco CA US • 2013 Lines Ballet Training Program, San Francisco CA US • 2012 Lines Ballet Training Program, San Francisco CA US • 2011 Lines Ballet Training Program, San Francisco CA US • 2014 Vienna State Ballet Academy, Austria • 2010 Colorado College Dance Festival, US • 2010 University of Wyoming WY US • 2010 Kuopio Dance Festival, Finland • 2009 International Association of Blacks in Dance Conference CO US • 2009 Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Theater, Denver CO US • 2000 Dance Professor, Colorado State University US • 1999 Dance Professor, Colorado State University US • 1998 Dance Professor, Colorado State University US • 1997 Dance Professor, Colorado State University US ESTABLISHED EDUCATION PROGRAMS WINTER WORKSHOP High-energy training to include ballet technique, choreography, Uggi, and performance SOLOWORKS Workshop devoted to creation of a short solo piece, dancers benefit from individual coaching to develop compelling performance SUMMER INTENSIVE High-energy training to include ballet technique, choreography, Uggi, and performance JUNIOR SUMMER INTENSIVE High-energy training to include ballet technique, choreography, Uggi, and performance OPEN BALLET CLASS Curriculum designed for recreational dancers and the general public COACHING & PRE-PROFESSIONAL TRAINING Personalized program designed for dancers pursuing a professional career. Original solos created for competition / Youth America Grand Prix AWARDS AND RECOGNITION • 2015 City of Denver Public Art Commission for Denver Public Art Collection • 2010 Dance Person of the Year by the Denver Post • 2008 New York Ballet Builders Choreography Award • 2007 New York Ballet Builders Choreography Award • 2006 New York Ballet Builders Choreography Award • 2004 New York Ballet Builders Choreography Award • 1996 Alien of Extraordinary Ability by United States Government DANCE PROFESSOR, COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY, 1997 – 2000 Faculty member teaching Vaganova technique, and acting resident choreographer ASSISTANT TO THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR, SCAPINO BALLET ROTTERDAM, 1994 - 1996 Assistant to Artistic Director, Ed Wubbe, Rehearsal Assistant, Company Ballet Teacher, and Choreographer for Workshops COMPANY MEMBER AT NEDERLANDS DANCE THEATER, 1993 - 1994 Company Dancer, worked with Jiri Kylian performed with company on tours to Japan CO-DIRECTOR AND DANCER, SALZBURG BALLET, 1991 - 1993 Assistant to Artistic Director, Peter Breuer Guest Artist with Bavarian State Ballet Guest Artist with Bavarian State Ballet at Lincoln Center, New York Choreography for Salzburg Ballet Organized charity performance for UNICEF PRINCIPAL DANCER, BAVARIAN STATE BALLET, 1989 - 1991 • Under the direction of Konstanze Vernon danced the works of choreographers John Cranko, Sir Peter Wright, Ed Wubbe, Hans Van Manen, Ulysses Dove, and others • Partner to Evelyn Hart, Royal Winnipeg Ballet featured in galas including the Munich Presidential Summit • Coached by Prima Ballerina Olga Lepeshinskaya of the Bolshoi Ballet to partner female gold medalists at the International Ballet Competitions in Moscow, Munich and Helsinki • Featured in the film Moment of Light with Evelyn Hart • Choreographer for Bavarian State Ballet Workshops PRINCIPAL DANCER, DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET, 1985 - 1989 • Danced the works of choreographers Sir Peter Wright, Rudi Van Danzig, Sir Frederick Ashton, Hans Van Manen and George Balanchine • Coached by New York City Ballet Prima Ballerina, Karin von Aroldingen • Coached by Henny Jurriens • Soloist, Bavarian State Ballet, 1980 -1985 • Danced the works of choreographers John Neumeier, John Cranko, Sir Peter Wright, George Balanchine and visiting choreographers PRINCIPAL ROLES DANCED • Onegin (John Cranko) • Romeo and Juliet (John Cranko) • Symphony in C (George Balanchine) • Serenade (George Balanchine) • Diamonds (George Balanchine) • Apollo (George Balanchine) • Violin Concerto (George Balanchine) • Agon (George Balanchine) • Concerto Barocco (George Balanchine) • La Valse (George Balanchine) • Divertimento No. 15 (George Balanchine) • Swan Lake (Sir Peter Wright) • Sleeping Beauty (Sir Peter Wright) • Giselle (Sir Peter Wright) • Swan Lake (Rudi van Danzig) • Four Last Songs (Rudi van Danzig) • Les Sylphide (Michel Fokine) • Le Spectre de la Rose (Michel Fokine) • Cinderella (Sir Frederick Ashton) • Hammerklavier (Hans van Manen) • Opening (Hans van Manen) • Trois Gnossiennes (Hans van Manen) • Grosse Fuge (Hans van Manen) • Bad Blood (Ulysses Dove) • Joseph’s Legend (John Neumeier) • Nuages (Jiri Kylian) • Before Nightfall (Nils Christie) OTHER HIGHLIGHTS • International Ballet Competition Moscow: Gold Medal partner • International Ballet Competition Munich: Gold Medal partner • International Ballet Competition Helsinki: Gold Medal partner • Bavarian State Ballet at Lincoln Center, New York City • Munich Presidential Summit Gala • Partner to Prima Ballerina Evelyn Hart, Royal Winnipeg Ballet • Partner to Prima Ballerina, Jolinda Menendez, American Ballet Theater • Partner to Prima Ballerina, Judith Turos, Bavarian State Ballet PRESS “Austrian-born dancer and choreographer, Robert Sher-Machherndl, is everything an artist should be: a fiercely creative, self-confident individual who exploits familiar forms for his own devices. A visionary who forces us to look at the human body in strangely appealing new ways, and a dancer who makes the rigorous and punishing seem at once effortless and alien” Dance Person of the Year, The Denver Post "Sher-Machherndl’s movement style, reminiscent of William Forsythe, seems to deliberately accentuate his length and angularity, which becomes striking in combination with his clear center and precise technique” Dance Enthusiast "White Mirror, October 4 Babi Yar Park hosts the city's first Dance as Public Art Commission” Colorado Public Radio "Dance, Dance Revolution: Lemon Sponge Cake's ballets don't dance around the issues" 5280 Magazine “Another stunner, RUSH, I had figured was the work of a Forsythe disciple, like maybe Helen Pickett, who loves to ricochet between deconstructed épaulement and the ballet vocabulary itself. Wrong